Four killed in attack on Indian paramilitary camp in Kashmir

Alfred Griffith

Four people including BSF Assistant Sub-Inspector B.S. Yadav and three JeM militants were killed and three BSF troopers injured in the operation against the militants after they entered the 182 Battalion camp of the BSF near Srinagar worldwide airport at 4.30 a.m.

The militants targeted the 182nd Battalion camp of the BSF, which is entrusted with the safeguarding of the airport.

Reports said that three armed militants managed to sneak into highly fortified BSF camp at Humhama at around 4:15 in the morning.

All morning flights to and from Srinagar airport were cancelled. However, flights resumed operating in the afternoon after the security clearance from the police.

This battalion is entrusted with the security of the runway of the Srinagar Airport.

After that, PTI reported, the two remaining militants moved in different directions and took shelter in different buildings before being killed by security forces. "An assistant sub-inspector of BSF also died in the initial assault", Vaid told AFP.

The security camp of India's Border Security Force shares a boundary wall with the airport in Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir. "Firing is ongoing", BSF officials added.

Passengers on their way to the airport were barred from proceeding due to the terror attack.

Reinforcements of counterinsurgency police and paramilitary commandos rushed to the scene and armored vehicles dotted the entire road leading to the airport.

One officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the attackers breached multiple layers of high security outside and inside the camp while exchanging intense gunfire with government troops.

The area also houses training centres of the BSF and CRPF. The second militant was killed between 10 to 10.30am and last one was killed around 2pm.

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